Outside

 

As the weather seems determined to tumble into summer before May even comes to a close, we are grateful for the following:

• The long hours of daylight meaning more outside family time even on weekdays.
• So much access to the river banks right in our own city.
• Old craggy twisty trees for climbing.
• Shoes that are easy to kick off.
• Bikes and bike paths and a good patient teacher to help expand skills and independence for a more cautious rider.
• A curious caterpiller named Hungry that found a nine-year-old's hands a good place to explore and was given a new home in Mom's prairie garden.
• The relative ease of carrying a ten pound baby in a sling on the outside rather than inside my body.
• River kayakers that spark the imagination with ideas for future summers.
• Watching them love being out in nature as much as we do.